Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options
Close LEB

Job 19
Lexham English Bible

Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad

19 Then[a] Job answered and said,

2 “How long[b] will you[c] torment me[d]
and crush me with words?
3 These ten times you[e] have disgraced me;
you[f] are not ashamed that you[g] have attacked[h] me.
4 And what is more, if I have truly erred,
my error remains with me.
5 If indeed you[i] must magnify yourselves against me,
and you[j] must let my disgrace argue against me,
6 know then that God has wronged me
and has surrounded me with his net.
7 “Look, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but[k] I am not answered;
I cry out, but[l] there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that[m] I cannot pass;
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He has taken my glory from me,
and he has removed the crown of[n] my head.
10 He has broken me down all around, and I am gone.
And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,
11 and he has kindled his wrath against me,
and he has counted me as one of his foes.[o]
12 His troops have come together
and have thrown up their rampart[p] against me
and have encamped around my tent.
13 “He has removed my kinsfolk from me,
and my acquaintances have only[q] turned aside from me.
14 My relatives have failed,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 The sojourners in[r] my house and my slave women count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but[s] he does not answer;
I must personally[t] plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife,
and I am loathsome to my own family.[u]
18 Little boys also despise me;
when I rise, then[v] they talk against me.
19 All my intimate friends[w] abhor me,
and these whom I have loved have turned against me.
20 My bones[x] cling to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 “Pity me, pity me, you my friends,
for God’s hand has touched me.
22 Why do you[y] pursue me like God?
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 “O that[z] my words could be written down!
O that they could be inscribed in a scroll![aa]
24 That with a pen of iron and with lead
they might be engraved on a rock forever!
25 But[ab] I myself[ac] know that my redeemer is alive,
and at the last he will stand up upon the earth.[ad]
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
but[ae] from[af] my flesh I will see God,
27 whom I will see for myself,[ag]
and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.[ah]
My heart faints within me.[ai]
28 “If you[aj] say, ‘How will we persecute him?’
And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,[ak]
29 be afraid for yourselves because of the sword,[al]
for wrath brings punishment by[am] the sword,
so that you may know that there is judgment.”

Footnotes

  1. Job 19:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 19:2 Literally “Until when”
  3. Job 19:2 Plural
  4. Job 19:2 Hebrew “my soul,” or “my self”
  5. Job 19:3 Plural
  6. Job 19:3 Plural
  7. Job 19:3 Plural
  8. Job 19:3 Or “astonished”
  9. Job 19:5 Plural
  10. Job 19:5 Plural
  11. Job 19:7 Or “and”
  12. Job 19:7 Hebrew “and”
  13. Job 19:8 Hebrew “and”
  14. Job 19:9 Or “from”
  15. Job 19:11 Literally “he has counted me for him as his foes”
  16. Job 19:12 Or “siege works”; compare NRSV
  17. Job 19:13 Or “completely”
  18. Job 19:15 Or “of”
  19. Job 19:16 Hebrew “and”
  20. Job 19:16 Literally “with my mouth”
  21. Job 19:17 Literally “to the children of my womb”
  22. Job 19:18 Hebrew “and”
  23. Job 19:19 Literally “the men of the circle of my confidants”
  24. Job 19:20 Collective singular
  25. Job 19:22 Plural
  26. Job 19:23 Literally “Who then shall give and”
  27. Job 19:23 Literally “Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed”
  28. Job 19:25 Hebrew “And”
  29. Job 19:25 Emphatic personal pronoun
  30. Job 19:25 Literally “dust”
  31. Job 19:26 Hebrew “and”
  32. Job 19:26 Or “without”
  33. Job 19:27 Literally “I myself will see for myself”; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb
  34. Job 19:27 Or “another”
  35. Job 19:27 Literally “My kidneys fail in my lap”; see NRSV
  36. Job 19:28 Plural
  37. Job 19:28 Or “‘The root of the trouble is found’ in him”
  38. Job 19:29 Literally “from the faces of the sword”
  39. Job 19:29 Literally “of”
Close NOG

Job 19
Names of God Bible

Job Speaks: Admit That God Is Mistreating Me

19 Then Job replied to his friends,

2 “How long will you torment me
    and depress me with words?
3 You have insulted me ten times now.
    You’re not even ashamed of mistreating me.
4 Even if it were true that I’ve made a mistake without realizing it,
    my mistake would affect only me.
5 If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me
    by using my disgrace as an argument against me,
6 then I want you to know that Eloah has wronged me
    and surrounded me with his net.
7 Indeed, I cry, ‘Help! I’m being attacked!’ but I get no response.
    I call for help, but there is no justice.

What God Has Done to Me

8 “Eloah has blocked my path so that I can’t go on.
    He has made my paths dark.
9 He has stripped me of my honor.
    He has taken the crown off my head.
10 He beats me down on every side until I’m gone.
    He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 He is very angry at me.
    He considers me to be his enemy.
12 His troops assemble against me.
    They build a ramp to attack me
        and camp around my tent.

13 “My brothers stay far away from me.
    My friends are complete strangers to me.
14 My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming.
    My house guests have forgotten me.
15 My female slaves consider me to be a stranger.
    I am like a foreigner to them.
16 I call my slave, but he doesn’t answer, though I beg him.
17 My breath offends my wife.
    I stink to my own children.
18 Even young children despise me.
    If I stand up, they make fun of me.
19 All my closest friends are disgusted with me.
    Those I love have turned against me.
20 I am skin and bones,
    and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

21 “Have pity on me, my friends!
    Have pity on me because Eloah’s hand has struck me down.
22 Why do you pursue me as El does?
    Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?

Job’s Confidence in His Defender

23 “I wish now my words were written.
    I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
24 I wish they were forever engraved on a rock
    with an iron stylus and lead.[a]
25 But I know that my Go’el lives,
    and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.
26 Even after my skin has been stripped off my body,
    I will see Eloah in my own flesh.
27 I will see him with my own eyes,
    not with someone else’s.
    My heart fails inside me!

Job Warns His Friends

28 “You say,
    ‘We will persecute him!
    The root of the problem is found in him.’
29 Fear death,
    because your anger is punishable by death.
        Then you will know there is a judge.”

Footnotes

  1. Job 19:24 The order of the lines has been reversed because the English equivalent is difficult.
Next
Job 18
Job 20
Next
dropdown
Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2012 by Logos Bible Software. Lexham is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software

Names of God Bible (NOG)

The Names of God Bible (without notes) © 2011 by Baker Publishing Group.